About a month ago, I applied for an Asterisk-related job at a major web company in the Silicon Valley. I actually expected I would get an offer, since my first interview went quite well… I have even been putting off getting fully involved in another project until I heard from the 2nd person [...]
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Russell Bryant has post details of a new timing API for Asterisk:
Starting with Asterisk 1.6.1, you will no longer need DAHDI installed at all to get proper timing in Asterisk. There is a new timing API, and there are already two implementations. There is a DAHDI timing interface (res_timing_dahdi) and another (res_timing_pthread) that has no [...]
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Digium has acquired San Diego based, Four Loop Technologies, the makers of SwitchVox, a powerful Asterisk-based PBX platform for small to medium sized enterprises. With over 1400 installations in more than 20 countries, SwitchVox will benefit from the exposure and continued development assistance that Digium can provide.
“It will be business as usual for SwitchVox” [...]
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I just noticed that ATAComm and its parent company, Ataractic Corporation, has ceased operations.
Over the years, I have had many confrontations with ‘atacomm’ on the Asterisk IRC channel, although I have never met the actual person behind the IRC alias.
On numerous occasions ‘he’ would login to the Asterisk IRC channel and complain about Digium and/or [...]
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Adtran’s Co-Founder Mark C. Smith passed away on Tuesday March 27th due to complications from pneumonia.
According to ChannelWeb, Mark Spencer, the creator of Asterisk and recently took over the CTO role at Digium, was among the hundreds of mourners who waited as long as 90 minutes to pay their last respects to Mr. Smith.
Smith, a [...]
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